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  • Community Champions to help keep Bury safe during Covid-19

    Bury Council has today (5 March) launched its Covid-19 Community Champions network, aiming to sign up hundreds of residents from across the borough.
    The Covid-19 Champions network will be made up of volunteers from all areas of the borough and will help residents to stay up-to-date with how to protect themselves and others against the virus.
    Those who sign-up will receive regular updates on

  • LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2021

    If you are LGBT+ and thinking about fostering in Bury, then Foster with Bury would like to hear from you.
    It is LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week until 7th March and Foster with Bury is encouraging more LGBT+ people to consider becoming a foster carer to a looked after child in the borough.
    We welcome LGBT+ potential parents and will support your application to adopt or foster. There are sti

  • Plan for new Radcliffe 3G football pitch

    Bury Council is working with the Football Foundation and Lancashire County FA on developing a funding application for a ‘state of the art’ 3G football facility in Radcliffe. The council has set aside a total of £500,000 funding for the project and will seek additional funding from other partners too.

  • Vax weekly update – 65,000 people now had first Covid jab

    A total of 65,203 people registered with a Bury GP have now been vaccinated against coronavirus.
    The updated figures mean that nearly 36% of the eligible population (182,100) have been given at least one of the two jabs necessary to protect against the potentially fatal illness.
    A growing number of people are now receiving their second dose of vaccination - currently in Bury 683 aged under 6

  • Extra funding boost for Bury’s parks

    Bury Council is to invest a further £600,000 in green spaces in its next phase of an ongoing programme to upgrade Bury’s Green Flag parks. This complements a wider £1.1m green spaces improvement programme approved in November 2020.

  • Let's do it...Let’s talk strengths and doing things together

    The next instalment in the Bury Futures showcase will get underway at 2pm on Thursday 4 March. This will debate Bury’s strengths and how we nurture these for the health and happiness of future generations. To join the conversation see www.bury.gov.uk/buryfutures

  • Big boost for Bury play facilities

    Bury Council is gearing up to deliver a £550,000 revamp to play facilities across the borough. The investment recognises the need for quality, safe, accessible and sustainable play facilities that help maintain and improve the quality of people’s lives.

  • Borough reflects on year since first Covid case

    With today (Monday March 1) marking a year since the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in Bury, a new film has launched reflecting on the borough’s pandemic response.

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